gwk453 wrote:I recirculate my mash and my sparge time is 60 minutes with a Blichmann autosparge. I sparge until I hit my boil volume of 15.25 gal., pumping from my mash turn to my boil kettle. My efficiency is repeatedly 89-90%. My question is can I pump faster to bring my efficiency down to 75%. How much faster? Is it a linear?
dmtaylor wrote:I'm curious... why did you want to decrease your efficiency anyway? Just curious. Personally I have a theory that lower efficiency beers taste more malty, but I have more experiments to run to confirm this. For a while I was getting average efficiencies in the 90s, then I backed off on the crush and succeeded in hitting ~82%, and I'm keeping it there for the time being in the hopes of making better tasting beer. So that's me... but what were your reasons??
gwk453 wrote:Just finished brewing!!! I increased the gap to .053 on my Monster Mill. A niece coarse grind. OG was right at 75%! Sparge was the same. Didn't want to change two variables:jnj
Thanks for the info
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